The belly of Paris
By: Émile Zola ; translated and with an introduction by Mark Kurlansky.
Contributors: Kurlansky, Mark.
Publisher: Modern Library
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780812974225
Subjects: Paris (France) -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Work titles: Ventre de Paris.
Description: In this novel the author chooses as his locale the newly built food markets of Paris. Into this extravagance of food - which Zola describes in set pieces that wet the tongue, excite the ear, and stir up the belly - he places his young hero, the half-starved Florent, who has just escaped imprisonment in Cayenne. Florent finds himself at odds with a world he now knows is unjust. Gradually he takes up with the local Socialists, who are more at home in bars than on the revolutionary streets.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.